A7 crash in Midlothian on 8 February 2018 at 14:00 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 hit a pedestrian on the A7 in Midlothian at 14:00 on Thursday 8 February 2018. A 25-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2018
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88299, longitude -3.08968, in the EH22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midlothian East, Midlothian, EH19 2BF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950000189
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6094
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2021.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 21 November 2021
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Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 2 February 2021
26 m awayRef 2021991019642
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 3 August 2009
31 m awayRef 2009950005897
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 17 March 2017
33 m awayRef 2017950001021
Slight
Scania crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 4 September 2003
39 m awayRef 2003950007241
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A7 in Midlothian, 29 November 2007
39 m awayRef 2007950009952
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2018950000189 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Midlothian road accident statistics for 2018.